The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Jan. 9 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Cloud Cuckoo Land: Anthony Doerr
2. The Lincoln Highway: Amor Towles
3. Matrix: Lauren Groff
4. Call Us What We Carry: Poems: Amanda Gorman
5. Silverview: John le Carré
6. Our Country Friends: Gary Shteyngart
7. Harlem Shuffle: Colson Whitehead
8. The Maid: Nita Prose
9. Beautiful World, Where Are You: Sally Rooney
10. The School for Good Mothers: Jessamine Chan
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Michelle Zauner
2. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience: Brené Brown
3. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine,
4. My Body: Emily Ratajkowski
5. All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business: Mel Brooks
6. Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple: Dorie Greenspan
7. There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century: Fiona Hill
8. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: James Clear
9. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story: Michael Lewis
10. Greenlights: Matthew McConaughey
MASS MARKET
1. Dune: Frank Herbert
2. The Last Wish: Andrzej Sapkowski
3. Storm Front: Jim Butcher
4. A Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin
5. The Boy from the Woods: Harlan Coben
6. The Last Odyssey: James Rollins
7. The Color of Magic: Terry Pratchett
8. Changes: Jim Butcher
9. Foundation: Isaac Asimov
10. American Gods: Neil Gaiman
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Circe: Madeline Miller
2. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman
3. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
4. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover
5. Daisy Jones & The Six: Taylor Jenkins Reid
6. The Anomaly: Hervé Le Tellier
7. Mexican Gothic: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
8. The Lost Daughter: Elena Ferrante
9. The Silent Patient: Alex Michaelides
10. The Song of Achilles: Madeline Miller
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